Rattlesnake Rodeo

by Pa Rock

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Rattlesnake Rodeo is author Nick Kolakowski's blood-soaked follow-up to his earlier book, Boise Longpig Hunting Club.   The first book focused on bounty hunter and Iraq War veteran Jake Halligan, his ex-and-future-wife, Janine, and his gun-running, outlaw sister Frankie, as they struggle to survive as the prey of an exclusive club of millionaires and celebrities who hunt humans as sport in a remote Idaho setting.  It ends in an orgiastic explosion of violence, blood, and mangled, burning bodies - with the good guys limping away victorious.

The second book, Rattlesnake Rodeo, begins where Boise Longpig Hunting Club leaves off.  Jake, Janine, and Frankie are driving away from the scene of the massacre in which they killed several prominent and very well connected men, and they are fully aware that once people start to figure out what actually happened to these important people, their own chances of survival will diminish precipitously.

But Nick Kolakowski, a master storyteller, does not let his central characters stew in their own juices for very long.  Almost immediately the trio are confronted with a local judge who was the sister of one of the main individuals involved in the hunting club.  She knows that Nick, Janine, and Frankie were responsible for the death of her brother and the others, and she volunteers to make the entire matter go away if they will handle one assignment for her.  The judge needs to have a person killed.

Each of the three - Nick, Janine, and Frankie - have killed out of necessity, and Nick and Frankie have done so on multiple occasions, but none have killed without deadly provocation or for profit.   They string the judge along so that they can learn who her intended victim is and see if that information can lead to some resolution of the mess they are in.  When they learn that the judge wants them to kill a child, moral indignation clicks into high gear and the bullets start to fly!

Mr. Kolakowski is a New York City resident who is fluent in weaponry and the backwoods of Idaho and Oregon, and he is very adept at the craft of writing.   Kolakowski's escapist literature is so engrossing and addictive that the pages almost turn themselves.

This reader has become a fan - and he's not ashamed to admit it!